Now for anyone reading this first of all I am not trying to start any trouble I just want an answer. Ok, on to buisness. Why do you have to become a Goldmember to have checkmarks? The old FunTrivia had checks by quizzes and you didn't have to pay. I would like checkmarks, but I don't have the money to pay just to get them and the other things. The extra stats and those things I can see why you may charge someone. If your answer to this is going to be that some people do not play many or hardly any quizzes and it takes up memory or something like that then why don't you let people who have played over say like 100 or 300 quizzes go to something to sign up for checkmarks? They wouldn't have to pay for them though.

Can anyone help me? With my question anyways. (I don't think there is any help for me)

I have to agree with cardys, although i can't pay for the gold membership, and done about 750 quizzes, it's tough to know what quizzes you've done. Plus, i'm usually in the same categories and i'm not sure what i've done and what I haven't. Great Site! Thanks.

The reason Terry did it this way is that every time a page of quizzes is loaded, it would have to go check with the database to see if you had played the quizzes or not. It was slowing down the computer and the only way he saw that the checkmarks could continue is if people paid for it.

The simple answer:

FunTrivia would probably not exist in a few months from now *in any form* had I not introduced the Gold Membership functionality. Those supporting the site and paying a small subscription fee are therefore entitled to some really cool things. The checkmarks were causing system problems on the old machine so they were removed (it's machine-expensive to track, record, and display that information for tens of thousands of users a day). People requested the return of the feature in droves, so I upgraded the machine, added the support again, and added it into gold membership.

So the simple answer to your question: it simply was something that we couldn't continue to support for free. Likewise, it is quite possible that the current "you have already played this game" warnings may eventually be made gold-member only.

If you use FunTrivia so regularly and so thoroughly that you require to be warned and notificatied about quizzes that you have already played, we believe it to be more than a reasonable request that such functionality be reasonable-fee-based. While the internet may seem "free" to those who surf randomly, it simply is not for those who run the servers that make it what it is.

In the coming months I think you will find that MOST large websites will charge in some form or other.

Regards,
Terry

Could there be some distinction though? I can't afford to have the Gold Membership either and the truth is I don't really need additional statictics, but I've played around 1300 games and it's tough to remember each and every one. I don't suggest to make it free, but maybe you could make another level of membership that would just cost less and have only checkmarks in it. I believe there's lots of people who would sign up for that.

I see now, but Linire also has a good idea to charge for just the checks.